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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/04/07
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In article <38EE19E0.F0232DB0@Raytheon.com>,
	"Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com> wrote:

       ... [ snipped some stuff preceding this ] ...

>I'd rather see [] and {} be allowed as substitutions for ()
>in a similar way that ! of allowed for |, % is allowed for ",
       ...

Curly braces, yet.  I recall reading somewhere that the reason for
not including curly braces in Ada was due to the worldwide shortage
of {  and  } created by heavy usage of the C family of languages. It
is simply a matter of economics.  Perhaps the same economics applies
to the square brackets.  :-)

Richard Riehle